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ELIZABETH SCOTT Conductor & Music Director VOX Elizabeth Scott graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1995 as a flute major, having earned the prestigious Student of the Year Award and the Reuben F Scarf Scholarship for academic and musical excellence. Holding scholarships from the Hungarian Ministry of Education, she then completed postgraduate studies in choral conducting, vocal performance and aural training in Hungary and Germany before returning to Australia in 2004. She is a graduate of Symphony Australia’s Conductor Development Program, participating in workshops with the Queensland, Adelaide and Melbourne symphony orchestras and Orchestra Victoria, among others. She was also awarded the Sydney Choral Symposium Foundation Choral Conducting Scholarship in 2008. She has been the music director of Sydney Philharmonia’s VOX since 2008, building the ensemble into one of Australia’s leading young adult choirs. She was Assistant Chorus Master to Sydney Philharmonia Choirs from 2006 to 2008 and Acting Music Director for the first half of 2013. She also regularly works as a chorus master for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, preparing choirs for conductors such as Simone Young, David Robertson and Charles Dutoit. In 2017 she was the first Australian woman to conduct the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ annual performance of Messiah at the Sydney Opera House. She is regularly invited as a guest conductor for ensembles such as Canberra Choral Society, Coro Innominata, Macquarie University Singers and Orpheus Choral Music.
She is active in music education and is currently the Music Performance Projects Officer (Secondary Choral Music/Instrumental Music) for the Arts Unit, a specialist branch of the NSW Department of Education, and regularly conducts for State Music Camps, Choral and Instrumental Music Festivals, and the NSW Public Schools Singers. She has been the Choral Conductor for the Schools Spectacular since 2009, and was also Director of Vocal and Choral Studies at the Conservatorium High School (2012–2013). Elizabeth Scott is the conductor of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Choir, where she is also currently completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts. She works regularly with Cantillation and has performed and recorded with Pinchgut Opera and The Song Company.
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